Berkeleyside Covers Bay Area Book Festival's Restaurant Industry Panel

Our client Bay Area Book Festival's virtual #UNBOUND speaker series was covered by Berkeleyside for a session tackling a subject hitting close to home for Bay Area food lovers: the damage COVID-19 was doing to the East Bay restaurant industry in real time.

The session, part of the festival's Food4Thought programming, brought the same civic mission that built the festival's literary reputation to bear on a crisis unfolding in real time, treating restaurant survival as a story worth the same serious attention as any book being discussed elsewhere in the series. Berkeleyside's food vertical picked it up as part of its own ongoing coverage of how East Bay restaurants were adapting, closing, or finding new ways to stay open.

Coverage of a live festival session translating into ongoing press pickup is exactly the extended reach our events work is built to create, well past the day of the event itself. Read the full article on Berkeleyside.